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During its extended concert tour last week the Glee Club sang a great deal of noteworthy music. But undoubtedly the high point of the trip, from a musical standpoint at least, was the joint program with Vassar. This opened with Bach's Magnificat, following which the Glee Club sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written...
...Dignity, strength and power may be brought to the service if it closes with the noble strains of the 'Te Deum,' a confession of faith as well as an ascription of praise. It is also possible to have other lofty New Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive...
...Club has given concerts at Hingham and at Milton Academy, at Smith College and at Pembroke College, at the Gardner Museum in Boston and at the Boston Harvard Club. In March the Club participated in the Bach Festival week, singing the Bach Mass in B minor, and the Magnificat. In April on the Spring trip the Club gave concerts in New York and at Princeton, as well as singing in two performances of Stavinski's "Oedipus Rex", given in the Metropolitan Opera House with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
Tonight will mark the second occasion in the Festival, which is being given by the Boston Orchestra as the chief of its extraordinary programs offered in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, when the three organizations combine to present a choral composition by J.S. Bach. The "Magnificat" is the work to be performed tonight. In addition to this number, the program includes "Brand-enburg Concerto No.2", with solo violin, flute, oboe, and trumpet; "Suits for Orchestra No.1 in C Major", all by Bach. The final appearance of the Glee Club in the Festival will take place on Sunday...
...Friday. February 20. On Tuesday afternoon and evening. February 24, the Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the Bach Festival. Bach's "Mass in B. Minor" will be sung. The following Thursday the three musical groups will render the composer's "Magnificat" followed by the "Mass" on Sunday, March...